American healthcare is fantastic for the wealthy. Get what you want when you want with almost no wait. We also get treatments you can't get in Canada, if you have enough money.
The wealthy in the US have some of the best health outcomes in the world. It's only when you average with the middle class and the poor that our average outcomes drop.
The system stays the way it does because it's great for the people with power -- the wealthy.
” She later learned that, not only is Ibrance not covered in B.C., but the test that detected the return of her cancer isn't done anywhere in Canada.
"I always thought, it's crazy that my backup to save my life is another country," said McDonald.
"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."”
The wealthy in the US have some of the best health outcomes in the world. It's only when you average with the middle class and the poor that our average outcomes drop.
The system stays the way it does because it's great for the people with power -- the wealthy.